HITLER WARNS OF TOTAL WAR; NOW EXTENDS IRE TO FRANCE (1/31/40)

Microfiche-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz | 1/31/40 | Otto D. Tolischus, Raymond Daniell, K.J. Eskelund

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Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Hitler Warns of Total War

And he means it this time.

Reich Held Ready – 2-4
The International Situation - 3
Vatican Denounces Red Sympathizers - 3
Strong Navy Asked by Edison as Vital to a Free America – 5
20 Planes Sweep British Coast; Berlin Reports 9 Vessels Sunk – 6-7
British Army’s Dead Totaled 719 in 1939 – 7
Reich Reported Playing On Superstition in Turkey – 7
Raid on Kronstadt Reported by Finns – 8-9
11 U.S. Airplanes Near Finnish Goal – 9
Canadian Airmen Prepare to Depart – 10
U.S. Pilots to Train Canadian War Fliers Being Recruited in Preparedness Program – 10
Borchers Defends Reich as Humane – 11
British Captain Is Decorated for Daring During Skirmish in Frozen No Man’s Land - 11

[Northern Yankee]

Hitler said, "The have nots are fighting the war with the haves."

Where have we heard that before?

[saganite]

Wow! I want that big Nash sedan! Only 897 bucks. Probably less if I trade in a clunker. Whoo Hoo!

[KarlInOhio]

Wow! I want that big Nash sedan! Only 897 bucks. Probably less if I trade in a clunker. Whoo Hoo!

Now with a 99 HP engine that gets 23.76 mpg. Not too shabby, just so long as you don't want to accelerate.

Just don't try to buy a mink coat at "final extreme reductions". Anywhere from $800 to $2250. Yikes, even today that's too expensive for me. I can't imagine paying the same for a coat as a car, much less more than twice as much.

[abb]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_%28United_States%29

Social Security in the United States currently refers to the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program.

The first monthly payment was issued on January 31, 1940 to Ida May Fuller of Ludlow, Vermont. In 1937, 1938 and 1939 she paid a total of $24.75 into the Social Security System. Her first check was for $22.54. After her second check, Fuller already had received more than she contributed over the three-year period. She lived to be 100 and collected a total of $22,888.92.[24]

[abb]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/jan40/f31jan40.htm

British order Italian fighter aircraft
Wednesday, January 31, 1940 www.onwar.com

In Italy... A secret British military mission orders 300 Caproni Re2000 fighters. (German intervention in April effectively vetoes the deal and British attempts to obtain the fighters through a Portuguese intermediary fail with the Italian declaration of war on June 10th.)

In Britain... The Barlow Report on the “Distribution of Industrial Population” is published, recommending the building of new towns.

[saganite]

I haven’t priced mink coats lately but I’d bet they’re more expensive than your average family sedan, say $15,000 and up. Plus, you probably need the PETA blood stain protection clause added to your insurance policy!

[abb]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/31.htm

January 31st, 1940

UNITED KINGDOM: The Barlow Report on the “Distribution of Industrial Population” is published, recommending the building of new towns. (Jack McKillop)

U-15 (Type IIB) is sunk in the North Sea at Hoofden, after being rammed in error by the German torpedo boat Iltis. 25 dead (all hands lost). (Alex Gordon)

GERMANY: Admiral Raeder visits the commerce raider ‘Atlantis’ in dock at Kiel, and presents the captain with his operational orders. (Alex Gordon)

FINLAND: The Finnish Prime Minister Risto Ryti travels to Stockholm and presents the Swedish government a request for 30 000 men with equipment. (Mikko Härmeinen)

GIBRALTAR: U.S. passenger liner SS Washington is detained for several hours at Gibraltar by British authorities, but is allowed to proceed the same day; the freighter SS Jomar is also detained there. (Jack McKillop)

ITALY: A secret British military mission orders 300 Caproni Re2000 fighters. (German intervention in April effectively vetoes the deal and British attempts to obtain the fighters through a Portuguese intermediary fail with the Italian declaration of war on 10 June.) (Jack McKillop)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: SS Start sunk by U-13.

SS Vidar sunk by U-21 at 58.39N, 02.00E - Grid AN 4245. (Dave Shirlaw)

[William Tell 2]

Fantastic post thanks very much

[abb]

http://worldwar2daybyday.blogspot.com/

Saturday, January 30, 2010
Day 153 January 31, 1940
Just after midnight, U-13 sinks Norwegian steamer SS Start (carrying coal from Sunderland) with 1 torpedo halfway between Stavanger, Norway & Aberdeen, Scotland (all 16 lives lost). http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/222.html

U-21 has torpedo troubles. 2 torpedoes fired at Danish SS Vidar (carrying steel from Grimsby) malfunction but the third strikes Vidar (16 lives lost), immobilizing her 25 miles East of Aberdeen. Danish steamer SS Disko stops to pick up 18 survivors; U-21 fires another dud torpedo at her. SS Vidar finally sinks the next day. http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/223.html

Commander Timoshenko has spent 3 weeks preparing to assault the Mannerheim Line. He has 12 fresh divisions on the Karelian Isthmus & artillery lined up side by each. Opposite the Summa gap alone, he has 400 heavy artillery pieces (200 mm calibre or more) and innumerable smaller 75 & 45 mm guns, which are not camouflaged due to the Finns lack or artillery & attack aircraft. Soviet artillery has been pulverizing Finnish forts all month. Timoshenko is ready.

[RDTF]

fabulous, thanks

[PAR35]

Check the fine print about the test drive:

“Your Nash dealer has one ready, with the engine running”

Probably means that it is almost impossible to start - something you won’t find out until after you’ve signed the papers.

[PAR35]

You have to wonder if better diplomacy at this point might have flipped the Italians.

[mkleesma]

And Charley Drew at the Hotel Taft!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uug_h_21YqE

And cocktails for a quarter!

[saganite]

LOL! Pretty good little ditty.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

That is wonderful! I have posted the Charley Drew at the Taft ads many times, because they always seem to show up next to the articles. It never occurred to me his music could be found on youtube.

That album cover is pretty racy, by the way. Va-va-va-voom!

[henkster]

The Italians couldn’t be “flipped,” but a better showing by the French army would have kept them out of the war. Mussolini only declared war once it was obvious France was beaten.